Pros
This is an update of a previous review of L3Harris, and my third overall. At first, I rated them 4-stars, as they had a healthy culture and generous benefits. Then it declined to 3-stars over the next year and a half as compensation and benefits were quickly eroded, and promotion/pay increases were frozen. However, today we just got a mandatory full-time return to office email, and alongside the rapid decline in other benefits we've seen in the two years since my first review, I felt it good to update my review to a completely negative one, as the one thing that was propping up my review was this company's willingness to be flexible. The company is no longer willing to be flexible, and so now a well-reasoned 1-star review is warranted. Here's the actual pros that are left: 1. Lots of very smart people to work with. 2. Generous PTO policy of 4 weeks per year. However, it is officially an "unlimited/discretionary" PTO policy, so it does not carry over year-to-year and you do not get paid out any remaining time when you leave the company. However, 4-weeks is pretty generous for an American company. 3. Generally laid back culture. There's some employees that work a lot of extra hours but I've never been forced to do it. 4. Some of the projects are very interesting. It's cool to be able to say that something you worked on is now onboard a satellite in space or a jet aircraft.
Cons
1. Mandatory return to office mandate. Remote work of any sort must now be approved by senior management and will be rare going forward. They give the typical nonsense excuses about lack of mentorship and face-to-face interaction. 2. DEI is pushed all through the company. It's all over the internal website. 3. Clueless upper management. 4. Got rid of our old health insurance and now we're paying way more. Our measly 3% raises don't even cover the increase in insurance costs. 5. Extremely disorganized corporate IT department that was just recently outsourced to Accenture. 6. Clear lies about salary and layoffs. In the same month they bragged how revenue is up 17% YoY and yet laid people off - and our pay raises have been only 2-3% through all the inflation. In terms of real value, I'm being paid about 7% less than I was when I started working here. 7. Complete promotion freeze. There are several employees long overdue for promotions in my department. I'm one of them. But some upper manager several levels above my direct supervisor has put a complete freeze on promotions. 8. Stagnant hierarchy. It's great if you've been there 20 years, but it's really hard to move up or get noticed if you haven't. 9. Recent layoffs. Everyone is currently fretting over their job security.